Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.

Achim Wollscheid – Resolving Interactions

book – Selektion – ISBN 3934801021
Resolving Interactions is an interactive computer-light installation that codes interaction with art as a daily experience in a place meant for a different purpose, as the workspace. The abstract simple light-behaviours calculated by the machine are describing past and future walking patterns by peoplepassing by the installation space. This book documents a first failed attempt and the definitive one with notes and reflections that added to the production process. As the artists states: “our behaviour changes when we feel we are being watched”, and applying this concept to pictures: “only those who feel watched by them will watch carefully.” It’s the classic antropomorphic stimulus, or the search for life in inanimated objects. The ethereal relationship that is established between the watcher (that supposes to be watched) and the temporary animated object is an ancestral and instictive one. The suddenly changed amount of light, one of our primary recognizable signs, is indicating a presence, and the noise that can be generated by a substantial number of persons at the same time have to be carefully filtered by the system design (showed in real-time by a flat monitor, perfectly integrated on the sidewall). This intangible light response seem to permeate the office daily activity, staying there and revealing its presence, in the end, as a familiar virtual entity.